An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . rveyor in medieval times if we conceiveof one of them, as concentrating in himself the talentand the labours of a general building committee,with a whole group of dependent the unique importance of such overseers, animportance now, customarily, put into a commis-sion of many. The subdivision of labour, as Mr. Ruskin haswell remarked, necessitates a partition of the the middle ages this stage had not been authority, under personal resp
An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . rveyor in medieval times if we conceiveof one of them, as concentrating in himself the talentand the labours of a general building committee,with a whole group of dependent the unique importance of such overseers, animportance now, customarily, put into a commis-sion of many. The subdivision of labour, as Mr. Ruskin haswell remarked, necessitates a partition of the the middle ages this stage had not been authority, under personal responsibility,was recognised as the best security for the goodconduct of affairs; and a generous confidence wasreposed in those men of talent and of genius, whomit is now the aim of a domineering commonplaceto hamper to the utmost by associating with thema quorum of fools. It is not, therefore, M. Nic. Closse —as he istermed in the weekly account-book, of which a frag-ment has been discovered among the collegemuniments*—who is to be credited with the first Cf. p. H of Mr. Carters book. PLATF XXXV!
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